We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.

I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

The issue for us is trusting God enough to trust also His timing. If we can truly believe He has our welfare at heart, may we not let His plans unfold as He thinks best?

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.